Mechanism for piling plates or bars.



N0. 656,8 Patented Aug. 28, 1900. s. v. HUBER.

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MECHANISM FOR 'PILINGPLATES 0R BARS.

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MECHANISM FOR PILING PLATES 0R BARS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 656,841, dated August28, 1900.

Application filed June 18, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIGMUND V. HUBER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented or discovered certain new and usefulImprovements in Mechanism for Piling Plates or Bars, of whichimprovements the following is a specification.

The invention described herein relates to certain improvements inbar-piling mechanism and has for its object a construction of mechanismwhereby the bars or plates may be evenly arranged in piles and wherebyplates of varying widths may be piled by an adjustment of theparts ofthe mechanism.

The invention is hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a top plan of the bar-piling mechanism. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

In the practice of my invention a series of positively-drivenfeed-rollers 2 are mounted in suitable bearings secured on the side bars3, which are supported on base-pieces 4. Slotted rails 5 are secured tothe side bars intermediate of the rollers 2 and form guides or runwaysfor the buggies 6. Fingers 7 are pivotally mounted in the buggies andhave one end weighted, so as to normally hold the opposite endprojecting up through the slots in the rails 5, as clearly shown in Fig.3.

runways to shift laterally plates resting on the rollers 2 bya rope orband 8, passing around pulleys 9 and 10. The pulleys 10 are secured on ashaft 11, provided with a pinion which intermeshes witha rack-bar 12,connected to the ram or piston of the fluidpressure cylinder 13. By theoscillation of the pulleys 10 the buggies are reciprocated back andforth to shift the plates laterally off the rollers and rails, so thatthey will drop onto the inclined blocks 14:. These blocks 14 restuponposts 15, which in turn are supported by the vertically-movable beams16.

The movement of the rails and the parts carried thereby is effected by afluid-pressure cylinder 17, the piston or ram of which is connected byrods 18 to arms of a series of Serial No. 20,668. (No odel.)

bell-crank levers 19. These levers are pivotally mounted onpillow-blocks 20 and have their opposite arms connected by links to thebeams 16, as shown in Fig. 2. The inclined or piling blocks are arrangedintermediate of beds 22, which are provided with suitable guideways forthe slides 23, having posts or standards 24 formed or secured thereon.The slides 23 are provided with teeth on one or both lower edges forengagement with pinions on the shaft 25, which is provided at one orboth ends with disks having holes for the reception of capstan-bars,whereby the shaft may be rotated to adjust the posts or standards 24:toward or from the front face of the feed-table.

In piling bars the inclined or piling blocks are raised above the slides23 and preferably to within a short distance below the upper surfaces ofthe rails 5. The buggies are then reciprocated to push the bars off fromthe rails, so that they will drop onto the inclined blocks 14, downwhich the plates will slide until their outer edges rest against theposts or standards 24:. Succeeding plates will drop onto precedingplates and be brought into alinement by sliding down against the postsor standards. As the plates accumulate the piling-blocks are lowered.After the desired number have been piled as described the piling-blocksare lowered until the pile rests upon the slides 23, thereby bringingthe plates to horizontal position. If any of the plates are not inalinement, the slides can be moved in, pressing the pile between thestandards 24 and the posts which form the rear wall of thepiling-pocket. As the pilingblocks are intermediate and entirelyindependent of the posts 24, the latter can be moved in or out for thepiling of narrow or wide plates.

I claim herein as my invention 1. A bar-piling machine having incombination a feed-table, means for shifting plates or bars off of thetable, vertically-movable blocks for receiving the plates from the tableand adjustable retaining posts or standards, substantially as set forth.I

2. A bar-piling machine having in combination a feed-table, means forshifting plates or bars off of the table, vertically-movable standardsarranged intermediate of the re- 10 ceiving-bloeks, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set blocks for receiving the platesfrom the table and adjustable retaining posts or standards arrangedintermediate of the receivingbloeks, substantially as set forth. myhand.

3. A bar-pilin machine havin in combination a feed-tab le, means forshii' ting plates SIGMUND HUBER or bars off of the table,vertically-movable Witnesses:

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receiving-blocks having their upper surfaces inclined and adjustableretaining posts or

